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Page 11
... letters , whence the vast domain of learning , the Canaan of human wisdom , stretched alluringly before her ; and as often as she climbed this height , and viewed the wondrous scene beyond , it seemed , indeed , " an arch where through ...
... letters , whence the vast domain of learning , the Canaan of human wisdom , stretched alluringly before her ; and as often as she climbed this height , and viewed the wondrous scene beyond , it seemed , indeed , " an arch where through ...
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... letters : " " " To the memory of Aaron Hunt : an honest blacksmith , and true Christian ; aged sixty - eight years and six months . " Here , with her head on her grandfather's grave , and the faithful dog crouched at her feet , lay the ...
... letters : " " " To the memory of Aaron Hunt : an honest blacksmith , and true Christian ; aged sixty - eight years and six months . " Here , with her head on her grandfather's grave , and the faithful dog crouched at her feet , lay the ...
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... letters were written in purple ink , powdered with gold - dust , while the margins were stiff with gilded illuminations ; and near the cushion , as if prepared to shed light on the curious cryptography , stood an exquisite white glass ...
... letters were written in purple ink , powdered with gold - dust , while the margins were stiff with gilded illuminations ; and near the cushion , as if prepared to shed light on the curious cryptography , stood an exquisite white glass ...
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... letters , and a curious Birman book , whose pages con- sisted of thin leaves of ivory , gilded at the edges ; and here too were black rhyta from Chiusi , and a cylix from Vulci , and one of those quaint Peruvian jars , which was so con ...
... letters , and a curious Birman book , whose pages con- sisted of thin leaves of ivory , gilded at the edges ; and here too were black rhyta from Chiusi , and a cylix from Vulci , and one of those quaint Peruvian jars , which was so con ...
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... letters , dialogues , and sometimes orations , all of which were not only written and handed in for correction , but he fre- quently directed her to recite them from memory , and in- vited her to assist him , while he dissected and ...
... letters , dialogues , and sometimes orations , all of which were not only written and handed in for correction , but he fre- quently directed her to recite them from memory , and in- vited her to assist him , while he dissected and ...
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